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...money yarns, The Cocktail Party is a woozy piece about a misunderstood writer who finds understanding in his young son; The Pheasant Hunter is a restrained and moving sketch of a boy who is learning to hunt. Saroyan was not exactly underpaid for either of them, but the second is good enough to suggest that if he could ever drop his vast enterprise in egocentricity he might write some first-rate stories...
...evidence was still far from complete, but it was enough to sketch a strange picture of the FBI at work...
...John Donne had a morbid obsession with death (". . . Never seek to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee") which prompted him to pose in a shroud for the sketch of his own monument, and keep the picture at his bedside until his death wish was fulfilled...
Many other industries expanded old pension plans or started new ones, adding millions to the cost of doing business in 1949. The changes did not settle the problem; they did sketch its enormous size. At year's end there were still about 11.5 million unionists without pensions, and union labor hoped to straighten this out in 1950. Part of the cost of pensions was a burden that industry could, and should, bear-if labor's demands were reasonable. But many businessmen also argued for a liberalization of the Federal Government's social-security payments, lest the burden...
...Thanksgiving Day, New York University officials had ripped the sketch for a student mural off its La Guardia Hall wall because of "sharp student controversy" (TIME, Dec. 5). The mural, by thrice-wounded Veteran Harold Collins, was intended to represent One World, but some of his fellows thought it looked like nothing more nor less than Communist propaganda. Last week N.Y.U. students forgot to disagree about it long enough to denounce removal of the mural as "a direct attack and violation of student rights and the usurpation of the powers of student government." As a matter of principle they wanted...